In his January 12th article on the 2010 ATF Operation White Gun, Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Serrano did little more than tell readers that three virtual nobodies had been arrested in an expensive sting that somehow allowed an unknown number of guns to disappear across the Mexican border. In fact there are probably more questions raised in the story than answered.

It will be remembered that in 1937 FDR was angry over the high court’s refusal to put a stamp of approval on much of his New Deal agenda, and sought to bend the court to his will by adding new members to the existing court membership.

The Golden Globes yesterday displayed Hollywood’s increasingly coarse contribution to culture again this year as Ricky Gervais dropped an F-bomb during the show’s broadcast. Evidently drinking, he told the AP how delighted he was to have: “a job where you can get drunk and say what you want and they still pay you.”

On January 9, John Karlson wrote the following letter to the editor of The Newton Bee of Newton, Connecticut, demanding President Barack Obama be impeached. He doubled his letter’s impact by sending it first to his congressman, Rep. Chris Murphy, a Democrat:

I guess we were supposed to be encouraged last week when the regulator-in-chief pulled out his plastic preschool scissors while promising to cut the government down to size. “The government we have is not the government we need,” Obama announced to a group of business owners at the White House on January 13, 2011. Obama promised he’d snip off a scant $3 billion over the next ten years — in … Read the Rest of this Post

Should we worry about large U.S. budget deficits and the growing national debt or not? I’m a worrier, but I get criticism asking, “What’s the problem?” Interest rates remain at record lows; the U.S. government can borrow at almost no cost. In this environment, why shouldn’t the U.S. try to stimulate our too-slow recovering economy by borrowing and spending more? Why shouldn’t the U.S. pursue a social and economic justice agenda, assisting … Read the Rest of this Post